Book for children.



R. H. GARMAN.

BOOK FOR CHILDREN. APPLICATION FILED 0011.29, 191s,

Patented Sept. 15,1914.

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RAYMOND I-I. GARMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOOK FOR CHILDREN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15., 1914.

Application filed October 29, 1913. erial No. 798,132. v

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, RAYMOND H. Gale MAN, acitizen of the United States. residing at Chicago, in the county oflCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Books for Children, of which the following is aspecification. i

The present invention relates to a book which is in the nature of a toyor plaything, and by the use of which thc education of the child isdeveloped.

The objects of the presentinvention are to provide the pages of the bookwith illustrative matter; to provide means for adding to said pagetemporary reading matter, whereby the child is made conversant with thespelling of words and with the elements of composition of readingmatter; to so arrange the openings or perforations in the page, whichreceive the members hav ing the characters thereon and by thearrangement of which temporary reading matter is added, as to bring outof alinement the letters of one line with the letters of another,thereby enabling the completed words to be easily read; and to arrangethe perforations on one page in such relation to the perforations onanother page as to form a backing for each of the perforations, therebypreventing the members when seated in the perforations from fallingthrough and out of position.

The invention further consists in the features of construction andcombination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure l is an elevation of a page made in conformitywith the teachings of the present invention, and with certain temporaryreading matter thereon; Fig. 2 is a section through a plurality of pagesof the book of the present invention; and Fig. 3 is a perspective of oneof the members which bear the characters by means of which the temporaryreading matter is compiled.

It is a well known fact that in teaching young children to spell, thebetter method is to produce an illustration of the object, the name ofwhich is to be spelled, because a child will ordinarily first acquireknowledge of the name by which a certain animal or object is called andwill afterward acquire the spelling of the name. That is to say, achild, when it sees a dog, will recognize it as an animal called doglong before it has knowledge of the combination of letters which spellthe word dog and hence in primers or other books intended to teachychildren the rudiments of spelling, it is customary to use a picture oftheobject and join with said picture the word which designates theobject, whereby `the child acquiresy a knowledge `of the manner ofspelling the name of the object, and thereby is made to understand thata certain combi nation of letters produces the word which he alreadyknows signifies a particular ob-` ject. In the present invention, thismethod of teaching children to spell words is utilized in a mannerwhereby the production of the spelled words adords entertainment for thechild, and thereby the book Vpartakes of the character.l ofv a toy.

Referring now to the drawings, and particularly to Fig. l, a pagelle isillustrated which contains an illustration of a dog, and an illustration6 of a cat, and belowy the illustration of the dog are lines 7 ofpermanent printed matter containing a rhyme or other reading matterrelating in a general way to said illustration, and there is alsoprovided lines 8 of permanent printing matter which produces a rhyme orother reading matter relating'to the illustration of the cat. Thus thereis roduced an illustration of a particular o ject and certain permanentreading matter relating to this object.

A series ofv holes or'perforations 9 are provided on said page, andinthe construction shown are arranged in an upper line 10 and a lower line1l, and it will be noticed that the perforations of the line 10 areoffset'or staggered as respects the perforations of the line ll, thepurpose of which will more fully hereinafter appear.

A plurality of members l2 are provided, and upon the surface of eachmember is printed or otherwise formed a character 13 which compriseseither letters or numbers, and these members l2 aredesigned and adaptedto seat within the perforations 9. It is understood that theperforations may be of any suitable size and character, and that themembers are formed in accordance to the size and' character of theperforations. It is intended that the child shall place selected ofthese` members in selected of said perforations, and to choose suchmembers as shall have the proper character arranged thereon, wherebywhen such chosen members are arranged in proper order they will producea word, which word will supply temporary printed matter to the page.This printed matter can be selected with a View of having it relate tothe illustrations on the page, and if desired to form additional printedmatter to the permanent printed matter on the page.

The reason why it is desirable to supply illustrations of the objects towhich the word or words spelled out by the character relate has beenpreviously explained. lt not only is the accepted matter of teachingsmall children to spell, but it gives a basis or an object for the childto work on in spelling, as it would obviously be impractical to simplygive the child a blank page 'iilled with perforations and ask it toarrange characters on said perforations to spell the word. If the childhas no object to work by, or any basis to work from, it would not arriveat any very definite result in the way of producing a spelled word, butif you place before it an Yillustration of a dog it will then have thisas a basis for formulating a set of letters which will produce the worddog and, of course, in so formulating them will conceive of the spellingof this word.

The selecting of the members andarranging them in place according to theideas of the child will afford amusement, and the book will, therefore,partake of the characteristics of a toy. There will also be amusementaorded by the child deciphering, or having deciphered for it, thepermanent printed matter upon the page, and, moreover, the child maydevelop its faculties of composition by supplying temporary printedmatter which will form an addition or supplement to the permanentprinted matter already on the page. In the example shown in the drawing,the proper characters have been selected and placed in position toproduce the words nice dog below the illustration of the dog, and thewords sly puss below the illustration of the cat. Of course, thisparticular selection of words is merely for the purpose of illustration,it being intended to have the child exercise his own ideas to supplywhatever words to the page he may deem best. By arranging theperforations of the row 10 in staggered relation to the perforations ofthe row 11, when a word Vis spelled out in the line 10, the lettersthereof will never aline with the letters of any word in the line 11,thereby making the words easy of deciphering; and it will be readilyunderstood that, taking a plurality of rows and arranging the letters inone row in exact alinement with the letters of the remaining rows, aconfusion in reading would be produced, because the reader ,in

1pages are illustrated, the first of which pages is designated by thenumeral 4 to `conform to the page shown in Fig. 1, and ,the second,third, and fourth pages are designated by its numerals 15, 16, and 17,re-

spectively. The openings or perforations 9 f in the page numbered i arearranged out of alinement withthe openings 19 in the page j 15, and theopenings 20 in the page 16 are out of alinement with the opening 19 onthe page 15, while the openings 21 in the page 17 Vare out'of alinementwith the open- 5 ings 20 in the page 16; thus the openings orperforations in each of said pages is arranged out of alinement with theopenings in the page next adjacent. Thepurpose of this is as follows:Each of the perforations is separated from one another by a solidportion 22 which, in eiiect, is a. web, and the solid portion 22 on eachof the pagesis alined with the openings in the next adjacent page,whereby these solid portions form a backing lying beneath the openings,so that, when the members 13 are inserted Within any of the saidopenings they will rest against one of the solid portions 22 between theopenings in the page beneath, and thus said members, when positioned,will iinda solid backing., This prevents'the user, when positioning themembers 12, from forcing the members clear through the openings and outof proper position, it being understood that said members are of aproportion whereby, when inserted within an opening, they lieapproximately Hush with the page. The reading matter produced upon thepage by the insertion of the members 12 is of a temporary character, andcan be removed at will by removing the inserted members.

The device, of course, is susceptible of modification as to arrangement,etc., and it is not the intention to limit the invention other than bythe terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A childs book comprising a plurality of pages, each provided withillustrative matter, and each having formed therein perforationsarranged in a line, the perforations on one page being odset withrespect to the perforations of the next adjacent page whereby a backingis provided beneath each perforation, `members arranged to seat in saidperforations, said members having characters on the face thereofwhereby, when selected of said members are positioned in selected ofsaid perforations, temporary reading matter is supplied to the page,substantially as described.

2. A childs book comprising aplurality of pages, each provided withillustrative matter, and each having perforations Jformed thereinarranged in a line, the perforations on one page being oset with respectto the perforations on the neXt adjacent page whereby the solid portionsbetween the perforations on one page aline with the perforations on thenext adjacent page and form Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for abackingl beneath said latter perforations, members adapted to seat insaid perforations, each member having a character on the surfacewhereby, when selected of said members are positioned within selected ofsaid perforations, temporary reading matter is added to the page,substantially as described.

RAYMOND H. GARMAN. Witnesses:

WM. P. BOND, EPHRAIM BANNING.

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